Julie Weber worked in a one-hour photo processing lab at a time when photography was experiencing a monumental shift from film to digital processes. Dye-sublimination printers, which use heat to transfer dye to paper, require a printer ribbon: a spool of thin polyester coated in repeating blocks of cyan, magenta and yellow dyes. Each image sent to the printer leaves behind three impressions on the ribbon, one for each color. When a ribbon reaches its printing capacity, it is full of image remnants, analogous to negatives. Fascinated by this material, Weber collected the film-like ribbons from the images she processed as a record of her time on that printer. re | process is the result of revisiting, repurposing, and reimaging this archive of material byproduct through an oscillation of digital and analogue photographic modalities.
re | process
Image #1 YC in B&W (interiors), 2019
gelatin silver photogram
14 x 11 inches
gelatin silver photogram
14 x 11 inches
Edition of 2 variants + 1AP
Image #2 YMC in B&W (portraits), 2019
gelatin silver photogram
14 x 11 inches
gelatin silver photogram
14 x 11 inches
Edition of 2 variants + 1AP
Image #3 CYM in B&W (nature), 2019
gelatin silver photogram
14 x 11 inches
gelatin silver photogram
14 x 11 inches
Edition of 2 variants + 1AP
Image #4 in CY (portraits), 2019
archival pigment print
24 x 18 inches
archival pigment print
24 x 18 inches
Edition of 2 + 1AP
Image #5 in YM (portraits), 2019
archival pigment print
24 x 18 inches
archival pigment print
24 x 18 inches
Edition of 2 + 1AP
Image #6 in MC (interiors), 2019
archival pigment print
24 x 18 inches
archival pigment print
24 x 18 inches
Edition of 2 + 1AP
Ribbons #1 in B&W, 2019
gelatin silver photogram
20 x 16 inches
gelatin silver photogram
20 x 16 inches
Edition of 2 variants + 1AP
Ribbons #2 in B&W, 2019
gelatin silver photogram
20 x 16 inches
gelatin silver photogram
20 x 16 inches
Edition of 2 variants + 1AP
Ribbons #3 in B&W, 2019
gelatin silver photogram
20 x 16 inches
gelatin silver photogram
20 x 16 inches
Edition of 2 variants + 1AP
Full Bleed #1 in B&W, 2019
gelatin silver photogram
20 x 16 inches
gelatin silver photogram
20 x 16 inches
Edition of 2 variants + 1AP
Offcuts #1 in CMY, 2019
archival pigment print
46 x 36 inches
archival pigment print
46 x 36 inches
Edition of 2 + 1 AP
Offcuts #1 in B&W, 2019
gelatin silver photogram
14 x 11 inches
gelatin silver photogram
14 x 11 inches
Edition of 2 variants + 1AP
Offcuts #2 in CMY, 2019
archival pigment print
46 x 36 inches
archival pigment print
46 x 36 inches
Edition of 2 + 1 AP
Offcuts #2 in B&W, 2019
gelatin silver photogram
14 x 11 inches
gelatin silver photogram
14 x 11 inches
Edition of 2 variants + 1AP
Offcuts #3 in CMY, 2019
archival pigment print
46 x 36 inches
archival pigment print
46 x 36 inches
Edition of 2 + 1 AP
Offcuts #3 in B&W, 2019
gelatin silver photogram
14 x 11 inches
gelatin silver photogram
14 x 11 inches
Edition of 2 variants + 1AP
Study #1 CMY in B&W, 2019
gelatin silver photogram
20 x 16 inches
gelatin silver photogram
20 x 16 inches
Edition of 2 variants + 1AP
Study #2 CMY in B&W, 2019
gelatin silver photogram
20 x 16 inches
gelatin silver photogram
20 x 16 inches
Edition of 2 variants + 1AP
Transparence #1 in C, 2019
dye-sublimation printer ribbon sheets; double-sided frame
20 x 16 inches
dye-sublimation printer ribbon sheets; double-sided frame
20 x 16 inches
unique
Transparence #2 in M, 2019
dye-sublimation printer ribbon sheets; double-sided frame
20 x 16 inches
dye-sublimation printer ribbon sheets; double-sided frame
20 x 16 inches
unique
Transparence #3 in Y, 2019
dye-sublimation printer ribbon sheets; double-sided frame
20 x 16 inches
dye-sublimation printer ribbon sheets; double-sided frame
20 x 16 inches
unique
